National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia announced today
that Texas Arts Commission Chairman Tony Chauveaux will serve as the
agency's Deputy Chairman of Grants and Awards. In this position,
Chauveaux will be responsible for the planning and management of all
discipline-based grants and awards and will serve as principal adviser
to the Chairman and Senior Deputy Chairman on the development and
management of grant categories and related agency activities. He will
participate with the Chairman, Senior Deputy Chairman and other
top-level agency officials in formulation of Arts Endowment policies and
programs in support of the arts.

Chauveaux, 52, will assume his new position on Oct. 20, 2003.

"I'm pleased to bring on board such a dedicated and
experienced person to manage the core work of the Arts Endowment -- its
central grantmaking operation," said NEA Chairman Dana Gioia.
"I know his great enthusiasm for the arts and his knowledge of the
field will make him an enormous asset to the agency."

A member of the Texas Commission on the Arts since 1997, Chauveaux
has served as Commission Chair since his appointment by then-Governor
Bush in June 2000. Chauveaux's public service also includes board
membership on numerous other arts organizations, including the
Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
and the Institute of Texan Cultures at the University of Texas at San
Antonio. In his hometown of Beaumont, he has served as Vice President of
the Jefferson Theater for the Performing Arts, President of the Art
Museum of Southeast Texas, Vice President of the Symphony of Southeast
Texas, and President of Friends of the Arts at Lamar University. In
1996, he received the Southeast Texas Arts Council Award for Outstanding
Achievement by an Arts Volunteer.

Chauveaux is also a self-employed lawyer and has practiced
corporate law for more than 15 years at the Beaumont firm of
Crutchfield, DeCordova & Chauveaux. He received a law degree from
St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio and a
bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at
Austin. He was raised on a ranch in the Texas Panhandle near the town of
Claude.

For more information or to request an electronic image of Tony
Chauveaux, please contact the NEA Office of Communications at
202-682-5570.

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